A portrait of Cézanne purchased through Edsel Ford in 1933 will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York on October 6, Edsel and Eleanor Ford announced on Wednesday, a portrait that was included in the first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1929..
Christie’s is valued at about $25 million. In 2012, another Cézanne watercolor, “Card Player”, which is not owned by Ford, was sold at the auction for $17 million.
All proceeds from any sale will be the donation from Ford House, which owns watercolors, from the art collection bequeathed through Eleanor Ford after her death in 1976.
The paper paintings, “Dead Nature with Milk, Melon and Sugar Jar” (Dead Nature with Milk, Melon and Sugar Jar), are fragile, so they have been stored in a tradition in the basement of grosse Pointe National Historic Site.shores since 2013.
A high-quality replica has taken its position where it was in the suspended past.
The House also sold an oil portrait of Cézanne in 2013.As with “Still Life,” it’s about strengthening the space museum’s endowment.
“Eleanor has been very transparent that the House will never be a burden on the community,” said its president and CEO, Mark Heppner, “and the successors take this duty very seriously.The board did not need to succeed in contributions,” they sought options to reduce prices and increase staffing.”
If Ford House were an art museum, it isn’t, promoting artwork to explain why anything other than buying a high-quality piece would be a moral transgression, but as a personal basis, they’re on another base.
“We are members of the American Alliance of Museums and the American Association of Local and State History,” Heppner said, referring to major professional organizations in the field, “but we’re not accredited, which is a conscious selection of the establishment years ago.Therefore, we are not subject to the same policies and procedures as some of my colleagues at the museum.”
In 1929, component “Dead Nature” of the inaugural exhibition of MOMA, entitled “Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh”.
The director of the Cranbrook Museum of Art, Andrew Blauvelt, praised the work.
“The artist’s watercolors, and in particular his still lifes, are among his most productive works,” he wrote in an email.”Namely, I appreciate the fragmentary nature of this interpretation; for me, his incompetitude only reinforces his impressionistic qualities.evidence of his mastery of this elusive medium.
The portrait will be one of the highlights of Christie’s October auction of works of the twentieth century and centuries.In early September, “Still Life” will take an international tour, first at Christie’s Hong Kong and then at the London branch of the auction house, before returning.to New York.
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